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Pretty much. The rate of finding a shiny in any game is about 1 in 8000. Unless you know how to abuse the internal system like with RNG or have incredible luck, you could play through every generation and every game and never find 1 Shiny.

B2W2 have an item that makes finding shinies a little bit easier and you can breed them at a lower rate using the Matsuda method.

I've caught one shiny throughout my 14 years of Pokemanning, and it was a piggeotto that I no longer have, I've also spent 10 hours trying to hatch a shiny, and this thread is going to be closed in 5, 4, 3...

You have an Item called a Shiny Charm which drops the rate by or to 33.33% I believe is was.

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Increases the chances of encountering Shiny Pokémon. The chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon in the wild is changed to 1/2730. The chance of an egg producing a Shiny Pokémon via the Masuda method is changed to 1/1024.

The chance of finding a Shiny Pokemon without the Masuda Method or Shiny Charm is 1/8192 to be exact. It is due to the fact that shiny IV lineups only have a 1/8192 chance of occuring, thus explaning the rarity of Shiny Pokemon up till today.

You have an Item called a Shiny Charm which drops the rate by or to 33.33% I believe is was

And to add on to that, the only way to get the Shiny Charm without hacking is to complete your entire National Dex (minus event Pokemon, I believe) and then receive the item from Prof. Juniper. It's a lot of work to still have a 1/2730 of finding a wild shiny, but I'd still take those odds any day of the week compared to 1/8192.

I've caught two shinies in Gold (Flaaffy and Noctowl), a Tentacool in R/S, a Spearow in HG, and a Woobat (who is now Monster the Swoobat <3) in Black. I think that's about it. I only still have the last two mentioned, sadly.

I am sad to say that I have never found a Shiny in the wild in my entire Pokemon life. The only ones I've ever encountered were through cheating and through in-game events, like that Red Gyarados in SS, the shiny Gible in Black 2 after beating Benga, and the shiny Haxorus in Black 2 after completing the Unova Dex.

Yes, catching a shiny is based purely on your luck. There are a lot of people who have been playing for years and have never even seen a random one like you. The best way to hunt them in my opinion is to do the Masuda Method while using the Shiny Charm which cuts 1/8192 (0.01%) all the way down to 1/1024 (0.1%). While it is still a very slim chance, that is your best bet.

It is all about luck when it comes to finding random shinies. I've been playing since G/S/C and I still have yet to find a random shiny. All the shinies I have now are from trading or RNG Abusing them myself. I still hope to stumble across a random shiny someday though...

Like what the others said, it's all down to luck when finding a Shiny Pokemon. I've been playing since R/S/E and I found a shiny in almost every game I played since, except the fact I have yet to encounter a shiny in Black 2. There's also stuff like the Masuda Method and the Shiny Charm, which can increase the likelihood of getting them, as well as the popular use of the RNG.

I've never caught a shiny before, but there is one which will be available to you if you defeat Benga in the White Treehollow or Black Tower (Only or B2W2 players). That's what I'm doing at the moment. Can't wait to get my first Shiny!

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The recent shiny I ran into was a female shiny tangela on my White Version, but I didn't feel like catching it for some reason and now I regret it.. hopefully I find some shiny pokemon on my Black 2 Version once I buy it and start playing

You want to talk about good luck with shinies? Ive recently been playing pokemon X D gale of darkness and thought to myself, why not EV train some of my UT purified shadow pokemon on emerald version? Well, I did and specifically in attack for my scizor I evolved from the shadow scyther. Lo and behold, after around twenty encounters, up pops a shiny mightyena. I was like, wow nice, that's a shiny I don't have yet. Awesome! So I continue training and a few more encounters later, a freaking shiny poochyena comes around. I could not believe my eyes. I thought maybe I had a shiny frame or whatever because of emeralds broken RNG. I went and checked the natures of both my shinies after I cought 'em, and they were completely different. The pooch was adamant and the mighty was hardy or something.

But the luck didn't stop there.....I yet again go out to continue training the scizor and about an hour later (mind you I don't have pokerus on that game, so EV training takes forever), a shiny oddish appears. I was speechless. Completely and utterly speechless. Suffice to say, I was just extremely lucky, but three shinies in a figurative row? I'll take that any day. It hasn't happened since, even though I've probably been through thousands of encounters since.

Going to close this thread. It wasn't about what shinies you have. We have a thread for that already. It was about the difficulty of attaining shiny pokemon. If you want to continue with what you found, I believe we have a discussion for that. If not here, then check pgc.

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